It's all over for Lana Maier. She got her last 50,000 chips in preflop against Shannon Shorr. Shorr tabled against Maier's . The window card was the , with the and underneath it. Maier had to duck just two cards on the river after the turn fell , but she couldn't do it. The river fell to knock Maier out in 10th place. She earns $19,265.
With that elimination, we will collapse to a nine-handed final table.
Brian Malcolm raised from under the gun and then Lana Maier reraised. Malcolm came back over the top for a four-bet and then Maier asked if she could raise again. She was told she could and then made it five bets to go. Malcolm called.
The flop came down and Malcolm bet out. Maier flung her cards into the muck saying, "Good flop for my hand."
Lana Maier has been on an extended downswing the last twenty or thirty minutes, and it doesn't seem the break did anything to change it. In position, she bet a flop of , then three-bet after Bryan Micon check-raised. Micon called that bet, check-called the turn, and check-called the river.
"I have a busted straight draw," announced Maier at showdown.
Micon turned up to drag the pot and cut Maier's stack in half.
Picking up the action on fifth street, Maier raised after Malcolm bet. Malcolm called. On sixth, Maier led and was raised. She then made the call.
On seventh street, Maier check-called a bet from Malcolm. Malcolm turned up two clubs in the hole, , and the . He scooped the pot with a club flush due to neither player having a low. Maier flashed a third eight from her hand.
Maier: x-x / / x
Schock: x-x / / x
Micon x-x / / x
Look at those boards and guess what final hand won this three-way pot. The action was completed by Lana Maier on third street and called by Mitch Schock before Bryan Micon raised. Maier and Schock called.
Schock took over the lead on fourth street. His bet was called by both opponents there and then again on fifth street. Everyone checked the rest of the way.
Schock called air at showdown. Micon announced a pair of jacks. Maier announced a pair of kings to take win the hand.
"Wow," said Maier as she dragged the pot. "I didn't think I was winning that one."